With a lifetime’s experience, the tenor Mark Padmore, and the pianist Mitsuko Uchida present two of the ultimate works of the lieder repertoire. Mitsuko’s last album won the 2022 Piano Gramophone Award, the long-celebrated pianist is one of the world’s leading interpreters of Schubert, alongside Beethoven’s only song cycle, the ideal coupling. Mark Padmore CBE is world-renowned for his lieder. The duo have been performing this repertoire together on tour in Japan

“Of all the great piano soloists turned accompanists in this music, [Uchida] remains the most interesting. Padmore meanwhile made this a vocal journey of existential discovery alongside a textbook lesson in dynamics and the treatment of words.” The Guardian

“Two Schubert masters… It’s difficult to avoid superlatives when writing about Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Padmore. Especially when it comes to Schubert.” The New York Times

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Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98
1. Auf dem Hgel sitz ich sphend
2. Wo die Berge so blau
3. Leichte Segler in den Hhen
4. Diese Wolken in den Hhen
5. Es kehret der Maien, es blhet die Au
6. Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder

Schubert: Schwanengesang D957
7. Liebesbotschaft
8. Kriegers Ahnung
9. Frhlingssehnsucht
10. Stndchen
11. Aufenthalt
12. In der Ferne
13. Abschied
14. Der Atlas
15. Ihr Bild
16. Das Fischermdchen
17. Die Stadt
18. Am Meer
19. Der Doppelgnger
14. Die Taubenpost